The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1476
A raucous medieval road trip: pilgrims, a wife with five husbands, a pardoner selling fake relics, and tales that argue about marriage, fortune and who gets to speak.
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343–1400
Chaucer served as a customs official and diplomat; he was captured in France in 1359 and ransomed by Edward III. The Canterbury Tales was left unfinished at his death.
Feels like wonder and war.
Where elves once walked, a holy man now walks instead.
For there as wont to walkë was an elf,There walketh now the limitour himself,In undermelës and in morrownings,And saith his matins and his holy things,As he goes in his limitatioún.Women may now go safely up and down,In every bush, and under every tree;There is none other incubus but he;And he will do to them no dishonoúr. Books by Geoffrey Chaucer
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